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Words that rhyme with reverend — 138 rhymes by quality | Rhyme Land
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Words that rhyme withreverend

feminine
Masculine

Ends on a stressed syllable — a one-syllable rhyme, or a multisyllable word whose primary stress lands last. The rhyme hits the final beat, the way most rhymes in songs do.

Examples

love · dove · today · believe · forgot

Feminine this word

Ends with an unstressed syllable trailing the stressed one — always at least two syllables. The rhyme lands a beat earlier and trails off softly.

Examples

river · mother · follow · breaking · mountain

Masculine and feminine endings rarely sing together (the rhyme lands on a different beat), so they're kept apart here.

 vowel EH coda V
0
What it is
  1. The syllables' vowel sounds are identical.
  2. The sounds after the vowels (if any) are identical.
  3. The syllables begin differently.
How it feels
  1. Perfect
  2. Family
  3. Additive / Subtractive
  4. Assonance
  5. Consonance
resolvedunresolved
Example

cat / hat — same AE vowel, same T ending

Source
Berklee College of Music's songwriting method (Pat Pattison)
mosaic rhyme
never and1
138
What it is
  1. The syllables' vowel sounds are the same.
  2. The consonants after the vowel are not phonetically related.
  3. The syllables begin differently.
How it feels
  1. Perfect
  2. Family
  3. Additive / Subtractive
  4. Assonance
  5. Consonance
resolvedunresolved
Example

love / dot — both AH, but V and T have nothing in common

Assonance rhymes always have consonants after the vowels, but the consonants cannot be phonetically related.

Source
Berklee College of Music's songwriting method (Pat Pattison)
2 syllables
heaven36ever16never16devil9heavy11seven1level8clever4kevinheavens4levels1evantrevorseventhevanslever1devils3sever2severed2Devonbevelled1chevy1evers1leaven1levees1levelled1bevelbeveledbevelsbeviesBevinbevinsbevychevies1crevicedeviled9evered16evertsheavies11kevinsleavened1leavens1leveeleveled8
3 syllables
forever90whatever8evidence5every2however3whoever1whenever2heavily1eleven4heavenly4beverlyendeavor3leverage1brevity1daredevil1heavier1neverland1seventies1seventy1evelynbedevilbedeviledbedevilsbevelingbeverageBeveridgebrevities1cleverlyclevernesscrevicesdaredevils1deviling9dishevel
4 syllables
whatsoeverevidently2benevolence1bedevilingbenevolentdevilishlydishevelingendeavoring3endeavouringevidences5evidencingleverages1longevitieslongevitymalevolentmultilevelprevalencesseventiethseventieths
5 syllables
inevitable1benevolences1inevitables1inevitably
29
What it is
  1. The syllables' vowel sounds are identical.
  2. The sounds after the vowels (if any) are identical.
  3. The syllables begin the same — repetition, not a rhyme.
How it feels

Off the rhyme scale — identity is repetition, not resolution. Shown so you can spot it, not reach for it.

Example

fuse / confuse — both stressed syllables are 'fuse'

Source
Berklee College of Music's songwriting method (Pat Pattison)
1 syllable
rev
2 syllables
revelreveledrevelsrevving
3 syllables
wherever1reverie1reveries2revelers1revelry1reverence1reveillerevelerreveling
4 syllables
irreverenceirreverentreverences1
5 syllables
irrevocably1irreverencesirrevocable

“reverend” at line end — from real songs

You read me like a book like I'm the Bible, you the ReverendPlus the head game is stronger than a few Excedrin
— Bill Withers, “She’s Mine, Pt. 1” · rhymes reverend / excedrin
Shady, you can even ask my reverendThe Beat Konducta smoke twenty-four-seven
— MF DOOM, “America’s Most Blunted” · rhymes reverend / seven
Yet I am the reverendCorrecting direction wit all of these blessings I treat the beat like a confess…
— Thom Yorke, “Salsa de Fuego” · rhymes reverend / confession

How to read the 138 results

Tiers follow Pat Pattison's stability scale — pick the resolution your line needs, not just the closest sound. Bold words are common in lyrics; a struck-through word with a cliché flag is an overworked pair; a vermilion dot counts how often the pair appears at line end in our corpus of real songs.

Assonance 138
Only the stressed vowel matches; the consonants after it are unrelated. Loose and open — useful when a section should stay unresolved.
Identity 29
The whole stressed syllable repeats, beginning included. That's repetition, not rhyme — the line echoes instead of resolving.